Comments on: Sequent Occupancy, Josh Singer, and The Trappist (Part 1) http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/01/sequent-occupancy-josh-singer-and-the-trappist-part-1/ Wed, 22 May 2013 21:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jane Veeder http://blog.sfmoma.org/2011/01/sequent-occupancy-josh-singer-and-the-trappist-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-95562 Jane Veeder Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:31:14 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=22824#comment-95562 The concept of sequent occupancy reminds me of a 2009 book “First peoples in a new world : colonizing ice age America”, author David Meltzer describes the scientific picture (combining evidence genetic, archeological, anthropological, and linguistic) of the first peoples to come to the Americas. What amazes everyone is how very rapidly they traversed North America and got as far down as Chile in the first phase of moving with the (hunted and gathered) resources yet keeping in touch with other groups (access to mates and shared discoveries and inventions). Then, when they became more secure in their grasp of the environment and the resources (and started to actually change the environment and resources), they started to slow down and stay put, lose touch with other groups, interbreed and amplify physical, linguistic, and cultural differences, and – my thought – start to think that they had ALWAYS been in that location, like the Sioux belief that they had been created in the Black Hills out of the local earth itself.

The book has some static diagrams of this that are always fragmentary and you do a lot of flipping between multiple ones trying to get the flow, the change. To really visualize time and process, animation is needed, something that’s always been a key element of scientific visualization.

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